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Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code
IAmTheDave writes "Researchers at Melbourne University have grown diamond particles 1/1000 of a millimetre on optical fibres which they can use to transmit single photons of light at a time. The diamonds are grown on the optical fiber by raining carbon molecules onto the tip of the fiber. They claim that by transmitting information in single photons, any interception of transmitted photons will be useless to the interceptor, and thus the message will be completely unhackable. Transmission speeds are currently slow - 120km/h, but are expected to speed up."
Stretch 3000 miles of this across the atlantic, set up a secret recieving station on the African coast, and voila! One secret, untappable method for my world takeover, I mean, world communication plan!
So its really is true:
Diamond (encryptions) are forever!!
Buh wump dump.
(thanks. I will be here all week.)
Anyone want a game of quake? We could have like 1000 pings. It'll be like old times again!
I like muppets.
>> Usually slowing down light that much takes a great deal of infrastructure and effort, it's rarely a side-effect.
I think they did it by forming the photons into committees. They spend more time forming action plans and holding meetings than actually moving. Some of them actually go backwards...
http://request-header.info
So these are Canadian electrons, eh ?
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It's not that the code is unhackable, it's just that hackers won't be hacking into your bank account anymore. They'll just take the diamonds.
Stop nitpicking about units! I have it on good authority that the author of this story made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, so he is a quite an expert on these matters.
It just relies on a perpetual motion device to power the division by zero generator.